In all fairness to you, Mr. Curran, yes I have noticed that 'you' have been raising a call to arms against the heathen Tories!

However, by and large, Mr. Dion has not ... I suppose it is not fair of me to make you 'wear' Dion's failings, but unfortunately for Liberals across the land, you are tarred with the same brush, and 'guilt by association' dogs you.

Well that is comforting somewhat because I do adhere to the old saw, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

But back to the thrust of this post; for the NDP to not support the Liberal budget amendment does not mean that we support Harper. We will vote against all amendments and will vote aggressively against the Budget itself ... but what will Dion do? Leave a handful of Lib MP's in the House to give a token vote against Harper's budget?

Postscript:As a warm up exercise, I would LOVE to see the Tories get a good bloody scare in Alberta tomorrow! I would consider a Stelmach minority a great victory! (and gawd forbid, a Taft minority would be bliss ... understanding of course that he would require Alberta New Democrats to prop him up) .... the enemy of my enemy is my friend!

When the libs want to quit acting like "juveniles" and put up a budget amendment that actually has political "merit and relevance", they would vote for it. But the NDP is not into playing cheap politics and theatre, unlike the libs it seems. I'm actually surprise that you posted this James. I expected much more from you.

Time for Jack to put up or shut up Jan. Every time one of your talking heads gets on TV, all they do is ridicule the Liberals. They don't even bother attacking the Shithead Conservatives. All they do is lobby for Liberal votes. Layton should quit attacking Liberals and start attacking The most corrupt government since Mulroney!!

Brad Levigne. Case in point. Jody McPhail. Second case in point. Libby Davies. Third case in point. It's a joke anymore. How many times have they said "if it wasn't for the Liberals"???

Well, neswflash! It was Layton that toppled the Liberals and put this shitty, corrupt government into office, thereby killing Kelowna, killing national daycare, killing Kyoto.

I'm surprised by your surprise Jan.

If Jack wants an election, let's have one!!! Vote for the Liberal amendment. But then, Gilles might not. Cause he's a coward too. Down in the polls all over Quebec, he has less than a reason than Jack.

ok, James, since this is about revisionism of historical facts, let's go back to the fall of the libs minority govt, where Martin basically thought he could make it look like others toppled the libs govt, but thought he could win. Also, he wouldn't amend the budget for health care, like rein in privatization, but that's another matter.So here are the facts, which you are well know but want to 'blame' the NDP so that you get NDP votes.

In that final vote count, the reality was that even with the combined vote of libs and NDP, the libs didn't have enough votes to keep their minority govt afloat.

The combined vote - cons, bloc, and 3 independents - against the supporting the govt(without the NDP votes) was more than the combined votes of libs and NDP.

You know that, so why don't you rant at those 3 independent voters, or the bloc, and why pick on the NDP? We all know the answer to that one - attracting NDP voters!

Please spare me your rhetoric. When did libs become 'victims' so that we need to feel sorry for them.